I find the latter.

When I test reactions to less politicized violations such as removing polling locations from opponent strongholds, the partisan differences disappear!

For instance, I find that Republicans are less opposed to politically-driven limitations to vote-by-mail than Democrats are—even when the restriction hurts their own party.

Note: this holds even when using **perceived** (rather than manipulated) inparty benefit.

Really excited to share my first solo-authored article, out now in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin!

I test when and why Democrats and Republicans differ in their tolerance for undemocratic actions.

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Officially a doctor, or PhDONE (I think is what they say). So grateful to @lindaskitka.bsky.social and all the help I've received these past few years!

Of course, when graphing only outparty warmth, we get the weird relationship where the more you like the other party, the more willing you are to violate their democratic rights

Thanks for posting this! Here are my graphs from a couple data sets configured like yours. I get a slight positive relationship in one and a negative relationship in another, but there is clearly that curvilinear pattern going on in both—though not quite the same as yours @derekholliday.com

Thanks! Though I checked for that and political interest (extent to which one follows politics) didn't eliminate the effect

3️⃣ Could skew in the data explain it?

There’s definitely skew, but I find it hard to believe that it would fully account for the results.

2️⃣ Maybe it's because I'm not using a combination of inparty warmth minus outparty cold…coldness(?)..coldth(??)

Tried that too and found the same negative relationship!

Let’s look at some possible explanations (and rule them out):

1️⃣ Maybe people who are more polarized are also more politically conscious, which is related to more commitment to democratic norms?

Nah, I controlled for political interest and it does nothing.

POLITICAL SCIENCE MYSTERY:
Why do partisans who feel colder toward the opposing political party seem LESS supportive of antidemocratic actions against them (e.g., closing polling stations)? Intuitively, dislike = more norm violations. What’s going on?🧵

I also looked at movements that are widely supported but not seen as successful. The Native American Rights and Gun Control movements are the big ones here — more supported than successful by more than 30 points. (8/11)

I found the same thing with BLM support. Democrats—even White Democrats—were more supportive of BLM than Black people as a group were. Not the case for the Black Power or Slavery Abolition movements though. (6/11)

No, Democratic *men* are more supportive of all the women’s rights movements than women, as a group are — even women’s suffrage. (4/11)

Found some weird/interesting things about how Americans view 40 social movements in a survey I conducted recently with YouGov (1/11)

Political differences were clearer when we asked moral foundation endorsement in the abstract (i.e., how relevant is harm to morality *in general* vs. how relevant is harm to abortion), but were mostly about harm for liberals and liberty for conservatives.

(9/11)

Most foundations predicted moral conviction most of the time, but their interaction with political orientation was a mess—We found some political differences in which foundations predicted moral conviction, but they were inconsistent and didn't always align with MFT.

(7/11)

🧵How *moral* are the moral foundations?

We asked this question in my (now published!) first, first-author paper: "Values in Context: The (Dis)connections Between Moral Foundations and Moral Conviction" in PSPB!

(1/11)